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Adidas has pledged to use only recycled polyester in all of its shoes and fitness apparel by 2024. The company — the world’s second-largest sportswear brand and the first to introduce a shoe made entirely of recycled water bottles — plans to more than double the amount of recycled shoes it sells by 2019. Recycled polyester costs about 10 to 20 per cent more to produce than the virgin polyester Adidas currently uses in about 460 million products, though the brand remains hell-bent on discontinuing the use of virgin polyester within six years, the Financial Times reports. “Our goal is to get rid of virgin polyester overall by 2024,” declared Eric Liedtke of Adidas. He added that with brand’s production volumes it is not a change that can be made overnight, the Financial Times reports.

In Opinion

Even though Ontario’s cap-and-trade system added about four cents to a litre of gas, the nearly $2 billion garnered via cap-and-trade auctions produced significant benefits. Not counting greenhouse gas reductions, the proceeds benefited Ontarians by getting reinvested in energy efficiency, public transit, forest protection, and support for electric car usage, Gideon Forman argues in the Toronto Star.